Chapter 1 I turned the key in the ignition, and my engine spluttered to life. I pulled out on the road and headed to work. I turned right and noticed blue flashing lights in my mirror. I pulled over and sat in the car as one officer got out and approached my car. He strode towards me and I lowered the window. "Step out of the vehicle, Maam," he instructed...
Chapter 1: Selection Kate was a slave. Her master lived in a manor house outside the town. She was out doing errands for her master walking along the road into town. She was dressed like all slaves in a brown shift of coarse material, with a rope belt. Underneath that she wore nothing; slaves didn't get underwear provided. She liked the feel of her sexua...
Chapter Five - Rebirth The following evening Sabbina fixes the electrodes to her head one final time and settles into the bed under the pyramid. Part of her is glad that this will be her last visit to the past, though part of her wishes she could continue her travels and explorations. Still Peter is right. Just this one last time - for now. Secretly she res...
It was a regular but unpredictable occurrence in many remote parts of Mexico. The bandits were ruthless. Women were raped and beaten; men were shot or hung. After it was all over, they would take anything of value and leave the village without food. Thus far, Elena's town had been spared; no major raids for over 40 years. A few small robberies, but no one w...
Chapter 1 – The Initiation The night was still, accept for a gentle breeze. It was wonderful night to be out in the moonlight. However this night was very different. Small fires lit up the site of worship along with a row of candles around a stone alter which had been covered with soft cushions. A large crowed of shrouded figures gathered around the r...
Working with Jose was something of a trial. "Alan, may I ask what you are thinking you are doing with that torch and those tanks of gas?" I closed the jeep door and frowned at Jose's shadowy figure, standing against the crumbled wall in the darkness. "We have to get in somehow, don't we? The door is reinforced with iron and the lock will be corroded shut,...
"Whazzup!" Sallee Silverclamp exclaimed as she handed Pinter a mug of iced tea. The little Goblin overseer of Nagrand's Steamwheedle Preservation Society smiled with her wild hospitality that had always made Pinter laugh when she established connections here over a month ago. Pinter couldn't resist a little appreciative chuckle as she took the tea mug and si...
"Estalon!" came the abbot's shout from the courtyard. Peering out the window of his dormitory, the naked initiate hissed in frustration. His teacher seemed mad about *something* - and Estalon had slept in yet again. Whatever the young priest's virtues were, a timely waking was not one of them. Estalon turned away from the window to face his dresser, a loud...
Victoria strapped her silver dagger to her stockings. She had been given a contract earlier on that cold, misty morning that had intrigued her too much to put off. Usually she would attend to contracts with a mercurial approach - highest paying, highest priority. However, every now and then a case came to her attention that she would address on the very same...
Ali was tired. It was understandable. She hadn't slept in a day and a half- she'd been busy- and she'd be taking a nap right now if her family hadn't dragged her to church. But they had, and she wasn't. She was home from school for a week and felt it prudent to do what they said until she was once again a safe distance away. She squirmed in her chair and t...